Francis James Acebo is accused of shooting Derek Redstar Pappan in the back of the head while Pappan searched for a cellphone charger early Saturday, then telling his children goodbye and turning himself in.
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A Powell woman implicated in a 10,000-pill fentanyl mail delivery worth about $600,000 now faces federal as well as state drug charges. She faces up to 39 years in prison.
Carrisa Dunn-Pollard pleaded guilty Friday to embezzling nearly a quarter-million dollars from Cheyenne Little Theater, and has agreed to pay the theater back. She faces up to 21 years in prison.
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As Lander police investigated Michelle Boyle’s claims that a local man raped and punched her, they found evidence that the woman made the story up, slashed the man’s tires and posted fliers around town falsely labeling him a sexual predator.
German Guerra, 36 pleaded not guilty to numerous sex charges punishable by up to 144 years in prison, according to a Wednesday filing in Teton County District Court. He’s scheduled for trial in August.
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A woman suspected of lighting fire to a planned abortion clinic in Casper last summer was released from jail on Tuesday afternoon.
While unofficial sources have confirmed two homicides on the Wind River Indian Reservation in recent days, no official source will tell the public if homicide suspects are at large.
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The Cheyenne City Council voted down a proposal Monday to decriminalize marijuana in city limits. Councilman Richard Johnson said his primary motivation was to save the city money on superfluous fines and attorney fees.
German Guerra, of Jackson, is charged with raping a 13-year-old girl more than 100 times, making child porn and taking covert videos of women on the toilet in a local bar. He could get 144 years in prison if convicted.
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Brian Anderson said he decided to “pile up everything” with a bulldozer after arguing with his dad, but the court dropped the case because of a lack of cooperation from the father and other potential victims
A Riverton man who spent the last three years behind bars for killing his suicidal best friend could now go free after a failure to Mirandize him led to his conviction being tossed and a new probation-focused plea agreement.
Lorna Green, who made her first appearance in federal court on Thursday morning, told investigators she set fire to a planned abortion clinic in Casper last year because she was having nightmares about it
After police bumped the reward for information leading to her capture to $15,000, “several tipsters” led to the arrest of a woman suspected of setting fire to a new gender and abortion clinic set to open in Casper.
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A New Zealand woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death while working on an Afton-area ranch with a sheep shearing crew gave a tearful “not guilty” plea Wednesday in Lincoln County District Court and is scheduled for an August trial.
Carmen Theel, the wife of the police chief the town of Glenrock fired two years ago has been charged with stealing money from a church in Tucson, Arizona.
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Carolyn Aune, who is accused with Moshe Williams in the “gut punch” death of Williams’ 2-year-old daughter, will begin her trial April 17 despite a prosecutor’s concerns that his most important witnesses can’t attend the trial.
A Laramie man accused of giving fentanyl to a fellow jail inmate, causing his death, and forcing another inmate to smuggle a pill in his anus faces life in prison because of harsher federal charging options not available to state prosecutors.
Moshe Bahja Williams’ prosecution was paused for a mental health evaluation but a judge on Thursday said he’s sane enough to stand trial. Williams and his girlfriend both are charged with first-degree murder after Williams’ 2-year-old died of a “gut punch.”
A DEA agent used cell phone tower ping location data to link Kyle Rozell (who called himself ‘K Thuggin 2’) to one of his three fentanyl distribution charges. Rozell faces up to 80 years in federal prison and up to $7 million in fines.
After she told police she went streaking through downtown Cheyenne on Wednesday because the voices in her head told her to “air it out,” Alissa Marie Arellano was arrested on an outstanding warrant and ticketed for public intoxication and indecent exposure.
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George Kevin Dickerson has evoked an insanity plea for allegedly stabbing and beating his in-laws until his stepfather-in-law died and his mother-in-law nearly died.
Tirso Munguia, 19, has until March 30 to strike a plea deal for the alleged accidental shooting and killing of a 16-year-old girl, as does Cody Nicholson, 18, who faces an accessory charge for reportedly hiding the murder weapon.
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Mark Dean Switzer, 71, is in a Cheyenne jail awaiting extradition for allegedly murdering a friend in 2017, who was facing up to 10 years in prison for possessing child pornography and had told others that he refused to go to prison.
Eduardo Juarez was arrested in the early morning hours Saturday after reportedly flashing a 9 mm handgun at the Wyoming Downs in Gillette and challenging multiple men to fight him outside.
After someone found a body in the North Platte River on Sunday afternoon, firefighters arrived and pulled a man’s body from the river, officials said. An ID is pending notification of next of kin.
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By pleading guilty to a roadside execution of his two traveling companions, Luke Thomas Young will avoid facing the death penalty in an agreement with Natrona County prosecutors.
Former Rock Springs Mayor Tim Kaumo will let a judge decide whether he tried to use his position as mayor to beat out competing bidders on a multimillion-dollar construction project in 2020. The trial will begin on April 25.
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A Cheyenne woman, who was facing up to 100 years in prison, for allegedly embezzling $255,000 from the Cheyenne Little Theater established a plea agreement Thursday in federal court and is scheduled to enter the plea this month.
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Though she sobered up in the days leading up to her parental rights termination hearing, Robin Alcorn did not do enough to get her child back after police found the baby was strung out on meth, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Only two weeks after being trained and certified to detect fentanyl, one of the Wyoming Highway Patrol’s K9s brought down a convicted felon outside of Evanston who was allegedly trafficking fentanyl and meth into the state.
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A video showing a motorcyclist plowing into the back of a car that stopped suddenly for a three-legged dog in the road has sparked a storm of debate as to who’s to blame. But a 20-year Wyoming cop says it’s not a close call.
Myron Martize Woods of Cheyenne filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the city of Cheyenne, the police department and three officers claiming the officers shoved his pregnant wife aside and attacked him in his home without a warrant.
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A Riverton woman accused of starving horses, goats, geese, chickens and sheep – some to death – has agreed to plead guilty to four counts of animal cruelty.
Authorities are not ready to release the name of a man who died in the Natrona County Detention Center on Wednesday shortly after Banner Wyoming Medical Center cleared him to enter the jail.
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A Gillette woman won an argument with her boyfriend last week by dropping him off at the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office, where authorities promptly arrested him on three outstanding warrants.
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The romance novelist who led cops on a highspeed chase through a national park in Wyoming failed to appear at arraignment last week. Two warrants have been issued for Faleena Hopkins.
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Nearly a year has passed since a masked and hooded arsonist lugged a red fuel tank into Wellspring Health Access and lit the aspiring abortion and gender-change treatment clinic on fire, so the Casper Police Department has increased its reward offer from $5,000 to $15,000.
Anthony Long pleaded guilty on Thursday in Fremont County District Court and admitted to two counts of child abuse which resulted in his twin daughters’ legs being broken. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
Winter isn’t messing around this year, and neither is the Gillette Police Department. They aren’t cheap but “Track N Go” snow tracks have proven to be a godsend for, as snow continues to pile up, particularly in neighborhoods where streets aren’t plowed.
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Restaurant staffers found two men dead Saturday in a parked car in Lander that had been running all day. The restaurant owner said it appeared the car’s exhaust had been leaking into the vehicle.
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The Wyoming House of Representatives is considering a bill imposing a homicide charge on drug dealers whose customers die of fentanyl, heroin or methamphetamine overdose.
After 23-year-old Hunter Rezac reportedly turned himself in to Cheyenne police for recording a female coworker’s visit to the bathroom, the Larame County District Attorney’s Office charged him with voyeurism, a felony punishable by up to two years in prison if convicted.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday killed a bill that aimed to let fewer sex offenders get erased from the sex offender registry, because the bill’s language was confusing.
While debating a proposed law that would let banks intervene if they suspect elderly or disabled customers are being scammed, House Speaker Rep. Albert Sommers was tearful in relating the story of a vulnerable Wyomingite who was forced to live in dog poop while family members spent that person’s money on drugs.
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A district court judge says Floyd DeWayne Grady, serving a life sentence for the murder and attempted rape of a female prison nurse doesn’t get to reopen his case just because he’s “wishing for a do-over.”
Anthony Long, 27, has signed a plea agreement in which he promises to plead guilty to two counts of child abuse against his 3-week-old daughters. He faces up to 10 years in prison for each count.
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A newly released photo of Gabby Petito appears to show the social media star slain by fiancé Brian Laundrie to be bruised and bloodied just prior to the time of the stop made by Moab, Utah, police officers on Aug. 12, 2021.
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Daniel Scott James, 35, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and two felony drug charges Wednesday in the death of his toddler, and wept when told he’s not allowed to see his other children, ages 4 and 5.
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14 years after being groomed and sex trafficked by a man from another state, a 31-year-old Wyoming woman told Cowboy State Daily that living in a small town doesn’t insulate potential victims from the dangers of the Internet.
It was just like the movie “Risky Business” (but without Guido, the killer pimp or any prostitutes). A 17-year-old boy who drove his dad’s orange Porsche through Gillette at 100 miles per hour now faces eluding and exhibition of speed citations. No word on if he was grounded.
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Longtime prosecutor in Fremont County Ember Oakley said there is a big increase in organized retail theft at Riverton’s Walmart and offenders have admitted that a few days in jail is a small price to pay for all the shoplifting they get away with.
After arguing that police had no right to seize his journals and a state district court judge had no right to consider rape charges that didn’t stick, a convicted wife beater has lost his appeal to the Wyoming Supreme Court.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper who arrested Arthur Nelson after he caused a multi-vehicle crash that killed five students by driving the wrong way on Interstate 80 said he failed extensive field tests for driving impaired.
State Sen. Cale Case was the lone no in a 4-1 committee vote to advance a bill to the Senate floor expanding the criminal charges available for adults who deal deadly drugs. He says Senate File 181 isn’t specific enough to distinguish offenders who act with malice.
Benjamin David Wilson, 44, faces up to 15 years in prison for molesting a 12-year-old girl. He was acquitted of attempting to sexually assault a second girl.
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A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper who responded to a multi-vehicle crash that killed five people on Interstate 80 described a scene more suited to a dystopian horror film.
A Wyoming Highway Patrol trooper who responded to the multi-vehicle crash that killed five people on Interstate 80 described a scene on Sunday more suited to a dystopian horror film. Only the wrong-way driver walked away unscathed.
Phil Prime says it’s up to the court system and God to punish the wrong-way driver who caused a chain-reaction crash on Interstate 80 east of Rawlins that killed five people, including two of his daughters – Suzy, 18, and Andrea, 23.
Arthur Nelson, who drove a Dodge Ram 3500 truck the wrong way on Interstate 80 on Sunday evening, remains in the Carbon County jail awaiting formal charges from the county attorney’s office. He’s accused of causing a multi-vehicle crash that killed five young people from Arkansas.
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While watching a pair of thieves get stuck in their driveway while robbing them, a Cheyenne couple isn’t laughing about having the property they bought in October damaged and burglarized “by crackheads” several times a week.
A 57-year-old Gillette man serving life in prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy claimed his jury convicted him because he’s a pedophile, not for actually committing an act of sexual abuse.
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A Romanian man accused of stealing a $7,500 bottle of scotch in his crotch at a liquor store in Jackson appeared in court on Thursday. The prosecution said if the bottle — which was hidden in the man’s crotch — is in salable condition, restitution would not be necessary.
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A Torrington man accused of hitting a woman with his SUV and driving away was transferred to a higher court Wednesday. An eyewitness testified that the man rammed the woman and then swerved twice to try to dislodge her as she was stuck on its fender.
Testimony at Thursday court hearing detail a brutal beating and attack on a cognitively-impaired elderly Casper couple. An 84-year-old woman survived with an “orbital blowout” of her eye socket and her 75-year-old husband died.
Convicted murderer John Hereford is suing Wyoming’s prisons system saying the confiscation of his PlayStation console following the discovery of mature-rated games is a punishment that “does not fit the crime.”
Two Cheyenne teens say the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl on Monday evening was unintentional. The two appeared in the Cheyenne Circuit Court on Thursday to hear the charges against them.
A Greybull man accused of being an overdose victim’s drug dealer was transferred Wednesday to a higher court for felony-level prosecution.
George Kevin Dickerson told Casper police that he thought his ‘brain was broken’ after turning himself in for stabbing an older Casper couple. He’s been charged with second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
The Cheyenne Police Department on Tuesday morning announced that two suspects are in custody following a fatal shooting on Monday night of a 17-year-old female in Cheyenne.
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During an undercover investigation following the death of Cody man, DCI agents posed as a potential drug buyer and watched as the suspected dealer from Greybull arranged to deliver fentanyl-laced counterfeit oxycodone.
A young woman was shot Monday evening in the parking lot outside of Frontier Mall in Cheyenne. Her condition is unknown. The suspect has been located and is in custody.
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Charged with beating a 5-year-old girl to death and abusing both the girl and her little sister, a Kemmerer babysitter pleaded not guilty to all three charges Monday morning.
A police report and subsequent news story that a transient in Riverton was trying to kidnap a child were not true, according to the Fremont County attorney. He said the transient was trying to steal a purse instead.
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Accused of nearly shooting a local couple while hunting, Wyoming GOP national committeewoman and two-time state House candidate Nina Webber pleaded not guilty Friday morning to a charge of reckless endangering.
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Accused of intentionally murdering his two traveling companions on the side of a Casper highway and pointing a gun at a potential witness, Luke Thomas Young pleaded not guilty Friday morning to all charges against him.
A funeral home operator and her mom were convicted of selling body parts in more than 800 bodies to researchers around the world. They also altered medical records that allowed them to sell diseased body parts.
A “verbal altercation” in a basement Tuesday afternoon escalated when 20-year-old Solomon Nunez allegedly “pulled a firearm and shot” another man, Cheyenne police report.
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For the fifth time in the past few months, Wyoming has invoked a severe 48-state hunting ban, which strips poachers of their rights to hunt or fish in all but two states.
A drunk 65-year-old man who pointed a loaded gun and threatened to shoot a Campbell County deputy Thursday is lucky he wasn’t shot himself.
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Although state corrections officials recommended a 22-year-old Riverton man who reportedly coerced a 5-year-old girl into oral sex be released from prison, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled to keep him in prison.
A prosecuting attorney in a Rock Springs courthouse on Tuesday said a 2-year-old boy was found on the floor “cold and stiff” next to his father after ingesting his father’s illegal drugs.
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The FBI and Wyoming law enforcement are warning parents over Christmas break that kids can be persuaded to make pornographic videos by online predators who then blackmail them.
Accused of involuntarily killing his toddler son by having illicit medications accessible in his home, Daniel Scott James, 27, of Rock Springs could face up to 20 years in prison.
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The Wyoming Supreme Court ruled a 37-year-old Campbell County man can seek a new trial on two of his third-degree sexual abuse convictions because of vague jury instruction.
Six months after a semi truck slammed into the back of a slowed car, killing a family of five that was heading home to Gillette, the driver has been charged with vehicular homicide.
Tim Payne’s truck would have been gone forever but his phone was left inside. Thanks to a tracking app he was able to find his truck and then with a shovel and sledgehammer beat the thief down to get it back. All while the truck was moving.
Three out-of-state men recently sentenced in one of Wyoming’s largest poaching cases ever were likely killing wildlife illegally for “personal fulfillment” rather than profit, according to Wyoming’s chief game warden.
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A man convicted of second-degree murder for mercy-killing his best friend can receive a new trial, after the Wyoming Supreme Court determined much of the man’s confession invalid.
Although the recent conviction of the poachers in one of Wyoming’s largest poaching cases in history is good news, it may represent only the tip of the iceberg.
The Riverton man accused of fracturing the legs and other bones of his twin infant daughters pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two counts of child abuse.
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